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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 327, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 26, 2018Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 2018, 1:45 PM MDT for Socorro County, New Mexico. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 26, 2018, 1:45 PM MDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 2018, 2:15 PM MDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Socorro County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 120 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2018-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2018-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 25, 5:57 PM MDT, 19 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 5:57 PM MDT, 19 hours 48 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 11:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQRoosevelt29 min
Sep 25, 11:53 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQChaves, Roosevelt2 hr
Sep 26, 12:38 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ22 min
Sep 26, 1:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ35 min
Sep 26, 1:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMora13 min
Sep 26, 3:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSocorro25 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.